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27.2 Cross Tables
A cross table is a common type of table featuring a matrix of values between two orthogonal lists of header
data. It could look like the table below.
Example 1:
ex1.csv
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
1991 45 65 78 12 78 22
1992 11 23 22 22 45 85
1993 65 56 22 79 12 56
1994 45 24 32 78 55 15
1995 45 56 35 78 68 82
If this table is simply loaded into QlikView, the result will be one field for Year and one field for each of
the months. This is generally not what you would like to have. One would probably prefer to have three
fields generated, one for each header category (Year and Month) and one for the data values inside the
matrix.
This can be achieved by adding the crosstable prefix to the load or select statement.
The statement for loading this cross table could be:
crosstable (Month, Sales) load * from ex1.csv;
The result in QlikView would be as follows:
The cross table is often preceded by a number of qualifying columns, which should be read in a straightforward
way. This is the case in example 2:
Example 2:
ex2.csv
Salesman Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
A 1991 45 65 78 12 78 22
A 1992 11 23 22 22 45 85
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